Kai Rooney has let his mum Coleen’s big secret slip after unknowingly sharing a snap from her home showing a giant print of her Wagatha Christie Vogue cover on the wall.
Coleen sent her fans into a frenzy last year when she broke her years-long silence over her £3million defamation case against Rebekah Vardy with a stunning British Vogue shoot.
The WAG donned a cream Dior trench coat for the stunning cover image in front of Liverpool’s iconic Liver Building, but it was the bold Vogue cover title that really drove Wagatha Christie fans wild.
The publication branded her ‘Wife, Mother, Detective, Superstar’ and it seems Coleen is a fan of the description as she has it plastered on her wall.
Taking to Instagram on Monday, 14-year-old Kai shared a snap of the clothing brand Drama Call had sent him; however, a large blown-up version of Coleen’s Vogue cover was visible behind the couch.
Kai Rooney let his mother Coleen’s big secret slip after unknowingly sharing a snap of her home showing a giant print of her Wagatha Christie Vogue cover on her Instagram wall on Monday.
Fans loved the ‘detective’ brand when his interview was published last August.
Coleen’s followers praised the cheeky reference, with one even joking that she should get a role in Line Of Duty series seven.
They wrote on X, formerly Twitter: ‘”Wife, mother, detective, superstar’ I’m screaming!”; ‘Hun culture has peaked with this Coleen Rooney British Vogue cover. 10/10 without notes.’;
‘I can’t BELIEVE Coleen Rooney is on the cover of British Vogue’s SEPTEMBER ISSUE. I am gagged as a “detective”‘;
‘It seems absolutely correct to me that Coleen Rooney on the cover of British Vogue is described as a “detective” and dressed as Inspector Gadget.’;
‘You could start your own business as a private investigator.’; ‘Coleen Rooney on the cover of British Vogue was not on our 2023 bingo card.’;
‘For Coleen Rooney to be the cover star of British Vogue with the words “wife, mother, detective, superstar” is absolutely ICONIC to me.’;
In the interview, Coleen, married to footballer Wayne, both aged 37, branded her nemesis, 41, “strange” and said his “evil” texts read in court made her sick.
Coleen sent her fans into a frenzy last year when she broke her years-long silence over her £3million defamation case against Rebekah Vardy with a stunning photo shoot for British Vogue (pictured from the trial in 2022).
Taking to Instagram on Monday, 14-year-old Kai shared a snap of the clothing brand Drama Call had sent him; However, a large blown-up version of Coleen’s Vogue cover was visible behind the couch (pictured, Wayne and Coleen with Kai, Klay, 10, Kit, eight, and Cass, six)
Coleen’s followers praised the cheeky reference, with one even joking that she should get a role in Line Of Duty series seven.
Rebekah had sued Coleen over an allegation that she had leaked details of Coleen’s private life to the press after Coleen had organized an elaborate sting operation to find out who was passing stories about her to The Sun.
She told Vogue how she came up with a plot to thwart the person who had been leaking stories, placing fake stories on her private account and making them visible only on Rebekah’s account, but she didn’t tell anyone what she was doing, No. even a lawyer.
Coleen said: “I feel like a lot of people still don’t understand what happened, from start to finish.” But what I said in that post, I still stand by today.”
The WAG revealed that her plan to publicly share the leaker on Instagram in October 2019 was all her own.
She said: ‘At night I started thinking about what I was going to do. “I just wanted these stories to end.”
But didn’t she do the classic Notes app turn-on at 3am?
She laughed. ‘No. I like pencil and paper; actually, a pencil and an eraser, to be able to erase it. So I started writing down what I wanted to say and then the next morning I posted it. “That was the beginning of something I never would have expected.”
Coleen said she didn’t tell anyone what she was about to do. ‘No. [The part] My friends and family were very surprised at me. [for was] putting up the post.
The ‘detective’ brand was adored by fans when his interview was published last August.
In the explosive interview, the WAG broke her years-long silence over her £3million defamation case she won against Rebekah Vardy.
He didn’t show it to Wayne or his mother or, despite much speculation, a lawyer. He woke up, wrote it down and put it on the Internet. He then took Kai and one of his friends indoor skydiving.
She felt empowered and relieved to have kept her plans to go public a secret, saying: “If I want to sunbathe, and I know I’ll be talked out of it, I’ll just go ahead and do it.” he. I didn’t want anyone to tell me not to do it.
Coleen admitted that when Rebekah said she was consulting with lawyers, she freaked out. Rooney was immediately scared.
She had not prejudged his statement and had assumed that it was permissible to convey what had happened to him.
She said: “You see people on social media criticizing people in such nasty ways and I thought I wasn’t that nasty.” But her stomach turned.
He added: “I had never been in a legal case before, so for me it was terrifying.” What a horrible experience. ‘What he feared most was going to court.’
Coleen was anxious and furious at being “dragged into court”, and said: “I found it hard not to tell him.”
Real talk: Wayne accompanied Coleen to the trial, but she said: “It’s been a battle at times.” looked at [any] situation we find ourselves in and we think, “Could we move forward from that? Is it worth moving forward from that?” I don’t just give up
She told Vogue how she came up with a plot to thwart the person who had been leaking stories, but didn’t tell anyone what she was doing, not even a lawyer.
“That first day it was very strange to be sitting together on a bench. It was very difficult in that courtroom…especially seeing her on the stand. It was quite painful. I felt uncomfortable.
‘Obviously she was going through that. ‘I thought: “Why have you put yourself in this situation?” It was not pleasant to see. To this day she cannot understand why Vardy took her to court. She is “weird.”
And he revealed how he found out he had won the case.
She said: ‘I had to leave to take the phone call, so I’m sitting in my car in the middle of Manchester, on an industrial estate, alone. David Sherborne, his lawyer, got on the phone and said, “We’ve won,” he said without any preparation.
She laughed: “I think all I did was curse during the entire quarter-hour phone call.”
‘It was quite surreal how many people followed him. Not just the soccer players or the girls. It seemed like everyone was reading about it. All ages, all types.
“The positivity I got from it… at least I’m glad about that.”
The court awarded Coleen costs and £800,000 of the total amount due was payable immediately.